••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Friday, April 06, 2007

family values?


i'm sorry i never mentioned this before.

it defies common sense to deploy mothers of young children to combat zones.

i recall thinking that the first time i heard of a young american mother killed in iraq. and the next time. unfortunately i hadn't begun to blog yet.

i'm not against women having military careers, but when they have little kids at home it's crazy to put them in harm's way. are we really so short on personnel or so panicked by terrorism that we've overlooked that simple principle? even if you're totally gung ho for this suicidal war, your basic notions of 'why we fight' ought to tell you not to imperil young mothers.

i regret i forgot about it till the president of iran beat me to the punch.

1 comment:

  1. 6 months down the line, it's still a timely post. Sadly we're posting both mother and father of the same families and all the talk about heroes isn't going to help the orphans.

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